Multidisciplinary Applications
Psychology, Infant psychology, & Psychoanalysis
The KMP can be used as a comprehensive instrument in the context of psychotherapy, teaching, prevention and intervention, with children as well as adults. Because it assesses movement patterns indicative of intrapsychic and relational functioning within the dynamics of naturally occurring movement, it can aid in many different contexts, such as, i.e. in the understanding of dynamics between a clinician and a client. It can also be practical in the development of a dynamic formulation as it highlights areas of conflict, pathology, and character expressions as well as areas of harmony and ego strength. In addition, it can be employed to look at relational aspects in the therapeutic context such as bi-directional formation of empathy and attachment, matches and mismatches, and rupture and repair. KMP also has been applied in working with cross cultural comparisons, in educational approaches and even in engineering.
The KMP can be used as a comprehensive instrument in the context of psychotherapy, teaching, prevention and intervention, with children as well as adults. Because it assesses movement patterns indicative of intrapsychic and relational functioning within the dynamics of naturally occurring movement, it can aid in many different contexts, such as, i.e. in the understanding of dynamics between a clinician and a client. It can also be practical in the development of a dynamic formulation as it highlights areas of conflict, pathology, and character expressions as well as areas of harmony and ego strength. In addition, it can be employed to look at relational aspects in the therapeutic context such as bi-directional formation of empathy and attachment, matches and mismatches, and rupture and repair. KMP also has been applied in working with cross cultural comparisons, in educational approaches and even in engineering.
One of the advantages of the KMP is that it offers a clear and systemic description of an individual's movements, distinguishing between individual preferences and movement in relation to someone else. For these purposes, movement patterns can be made conscious, described, and eventually experienced differently. Any two, or more, profiles of people in relationship can be compared. If a profile, for example, of a child is compared with the caregiver's profile, it can help to detect individual preferences as well as areas of concern between parent and child: matches and clashes in the relationship, areas of harmony and conflict and shared repertoires can be described. The KMP equips the therapist and the parent with a tool that can be directly linked to empathy and attunement, providing a language that illuminates developmentally meaningful sequences and themes, in aid of primary prevention.
Clinical Applications
The KMP can be applied to clinical populations. Sossin & Loman (1992) outlined some clinical applications of the KMP. Loman (1995) describes a case study with a child with autism. Sossin (1993) explores the impact of developmental challenges on the evolving sense of self; Lewis (1993) develops an approach using the KMP with sexual abuse victims; other clinical applications include the treatment of borderline disorders (e.g. Levy, 1995) and psychotic disorders (e.g. Cruz, 1995). In these areas, the KMP provides a distinct way of describing and categorizing interactive processes within a unified developmental and psychodynamic framework. It is also useful as a guide in the prevention and treatment of psychological problems, especially in Infant/Parent Psychotherapy (e.g. Sossin, 1993, 1999a, b, 2002, 2003; Sossin & Loman, 1992) and in the arena of parent/child holding patterns (Romer & Sossin, 1991). One other application of the KMP application is "Movement Retraining". Here, the KMP aids in helping parents re-experience developmental movement patterns. By experiencing and learning about them, parents are better able to attune and support their child's developmental progress (Buelte, 1992).
Clinical Applications
The KMP can be applied to clinical populations. Sossin & Loman (1992) outlined some clinical applications of the KMP. Loman (1995) describes a case study with a child with autism. Sossin (1993) explores the impact of developmental challenges on the evolving sense of self; Lewis (1993) develops an approach using the KMP with sexual abuse victims; other clinical applications include the treatment of borderline disorders (e.g. Levy, 1995) and psychotic disorders (e.g. Cruz, 1995). In these areas, the KMP provides a distinct way of describing and categorizing interactive processes within a unified developmental and psychodynamic framework. It is also useful as a guide in the prevention and treatment of psychological problems, especially in Infant/Parent Psychotherapy (e.g. Sossin, 1993, 1999a, b, 2002, 2003; Sossin & Loman, 1992) and in the arena of parent/child holding patterns (Romer & Sossin, 1991). One other application of the KMP application is "Movement Retraining". Here, the KMP aids in helping parents re-experience developmental movement patterns. By experiencing and learning about them, parents are better able to attune and support their child's developmental progress (Buelte, 1992).
The KMP in Dance/Movement Therapy
The KMP is widely used within the field of Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) (i.e. Loman 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2005; Lewis, 1986; 1987; 1993a;b; 1994;), where it serves as an assessment tool of non-verbal behavior which can then be processed verbally as well as through movement. Dance/ Movement Therapists who work within the psychodynamic/psychoanalytic traditions, can use the KMP for the observations of ego functioning, defense mechanisms, affect expression, and for the assessment and attunement in transference/countertransference matrix.
Bridging the KMP with other body-mind approaches, Loman, Ender and Burden (1994) discuss the KMP in relationship to the Body-Mind Centering (Bainbridge-Cohen, 1987), and develop a framework integrating the KMP with primitive reflexes, righting reactions, equilibrium responses and the Basic Neurological Patterns. Another paper looks at the KMP within a feminist relational model (Loman & Foley 1996). Loman (1994) investigates fetal body movements; and Loman & Kasovac (1997) used the KMP in the context of an infant heart transplant. In the field of anthropology, the KMP was used to investigate mother/child relationship and affect in Bali (Kestenberg-Amighi & Pinder, 1992).
Developmental
Dance/movement therapists have increasingly drawn upon psychodynamic and developmental models in framing their clinical interventions (Dosamantes, 1990; Goodill, 2005; Kornblum, 2002; Lewis, 1984, 1986, 1990, 2002; Loman, 1998, 2005, Loman & Foley, 1996, Loman & Merman, 1996; Sandel, 1982; Siegel, 1974, 1984; Tortora, 2006). The KMP offers a developmental framework that can be used to encourage and measure growth, and to integrate progressive interventions with the developmental process (LaBarre, 2001). It describes the typical developmental process in movement terms, which aid in identifying deviations from the norm, as well as strengths and latent potentials. The KMP' s psychodynamic framework provides information about drive development, affects, defenses against drives, defenses against objects, ego and superego functioning, object relations, narcissism, and areas of conflict or harmony in dynamics and object relationships.
The diagnostic/interpretive application of the KMP can lead to the detection of specific early developmental deficits and areas of psychic conflict, and suggests which movement patterns will be likely to foster resolution and growth. For example, the profile can indicate delayed, missed, distorted, or prematurely-induced developmental milestones by showing scanty or overabundant amounts of phase-appropriate movement patterns. Specific problems caused by trauma, such as abuse, separation or illness, during a specific phase of childhood, may affect the shape of diagrams in the KMP. When children experience these difficulties, they feel a sense of inadequacy that affects their self-image and often endures into later life. Body-image distortions, restrictions of movement, and accident-proneness may all be remnants of childhood trauma. The KMP identifies the specific movement patterns that are most relevant to the early conflicts between a specific caregiver and the child (such as inadequate holding and support or constitutional temperamental differences) that had, or are having, a formative impact upon the child's movement repertoire.
Once a deficit or challenge area in movement patterning is recognized in the KMP, various channels of intervention can be explored. By offering a systematic way to discern an individual's movement repertoire, and to correlate it with psychological experience, the KMP offers a stratagem for approaching treatment. Dance/movement therapists often use tension-flow attunement to develop affective empathy, and shape-flow responsiveness to develop trust (Kestenberg & Buelte, 1977a). These processes can evolve into more mature movement interactions when the patient is ready.
Dance/movement therapists operate in many different professional settings, and the KMP provides them with a powerful tool to assess patients in developmental and psychodynamic terms. To optimally use the KMP, the therapist would evaluate the patient's progress with a complete pre-treatment and post-treatment profile. In treatment planning, the KMP would be used to identify strengths as well as deficits, guide the therapists' movement approaches, and help the therapist determine whether to use attunement, mirroring, or affined movement patterns with the patient (Loman, 1994).
Bridging the KMP with other body-mind approaches, Loman, Ender and Burden (1994) discuss the KMP in relationship to the Body-Mind Centering (Bainbridge-Cohen, 1987), and develop a framework integrating the KMP with primitive reflexes, righting reactions, equilibrium responses and the Basic Neurological Patterns. Another paper looks at the KMP within a feminist relational model (Loman & Foley 1996). Loman (1994) investigates fetal body movements; and Loman & Kasovac (1997) used the KMP in the context of an infant heart transplant. In the field of anthropology, the KMP was used to investigate mother/child relationship and affect in Bali (Kestenberg-Amighi & Pinder, 1992).
Developmental
Dance/movement therapists have increasingly drawn upon psychodynamic and developmental models in framing their clinical interventions (Dosamantes, 1990; Goodill, 2005; Kornblum, 2002; Lewis, 1984, 1986, 1990, 2002; Loman, 1998, 2005, Loman & Foley, 1996, Loman & Merman, 1996; Sandel, 1982; Siegel, 1974, 1984; Tortora, 2006). The KMP offers a developmental framework that can be used to encourage and measure growth, and to integrate progressive interventions with the developmental process (LaBarre, 2001). It describes the typical developmental process in movement terms, which aid in identifying deviations from the norm, as well as strengths and latent potentials. The KMP' s psychodynamic framework provides information about drive development, affects, defenses against drives, defenses against objects, ego and superego functioning, object relations, narcissism, and areas of conflict or harmony in dynamics and object relationships.
The diagnostic/interpretive application of the KMP can lead to the detection of specific early developmental deficits and areas of psychic conflict, and suggests which movement patterns will be likely to foster resolution and growth. For example, the profile can indicate delayed, missed, distorted, or prematurely-induced developmental milestones by showing scanty or overabundant amounts of phase-appropriate movement patterns. Specific problems caused by trauma, such as abuse, separation or illness, during a specific phase of childhood, may affect the shape of diagrams in the KMP. When children experience these difficulties, they feel a sense of inadequacy that affects their self-image and often endures into later life. Body-image distortions, restrictions of movement, and accident-proneness may all be remnants of childhood trauma. The KMP identifies the specific movement patterns that are most relevant to the early conflicts between a specific caregiver and the child (such as inadequate holding and support or constitutional temperamental differences) that had, or are having, a formative impact upon the child's movement repertoire.
Once a deficit or challenge area in movement patterning is recognized in the KMP, various channels of intervention can be explored. By offering a systematic way to discern an individual's movement repertoire, and to correlate it with psychological experience, the KMP offers a stratagem for approaching treatment. Dance/movement therapists often use tension-flow attunement to develop affective empathy, and shape-flow responsiveness to develop trust (Kestenberg & Buelte, 1977a). These processes can evolve into more mature movement interactions when the patient is ready.
Dance/movement therapists operate in many different professional settings, and the KMP provides them with a powerful tool to assess patients in developmental and psychodynamic terms. To optimally use the KMP, the therapist would evaluate the patient's progress with a complete pre-treatment and post-treatment profile. In treatment planning, the KMP would be used to identify strengths as well as deficits, guide the therapists' movement approaches, and help the therapist determine whether to use attunement, mirroring, or affined movement patterns with the patient (Loman, 1994).
Anthropology
Theoretically the KMP is only attached to specific cultural settings in a marginal way. The movement qualities are descriptive and could refer to behavior in any cultural setting. Observation can take place anywhere and no specific movements are called for. So the KMP can travel from urban to rural, from western to eastern, from south to north. However, all medical diagnosis and treatment practices have their culture bound aspects.
In a study of child development in Bali Indonesia Islene Pinder and Janet Kestenberg Amighi (1991) found evidence of parental shaping of children’s movement patterns to accord with cultural conventions. Upon reflection, we could hardly imagine otherwise. Although there are specific temperaments that seem strongly persistent throughout life reflected in movement, there is much transformation and evolution both due to internal developmental programs as well as influences of the external environment.
Kestenberg Amighi interviewed native speakers of 8 different langauges to determine to what extent metaphoric use of English body movement qualities exists cross language boundaries (2010). She found that the closer the culture, the closer the pattern of metaphoric use. In Yuche for example, there were only 3 parallels uses in the case of 47 KMP terms. In Spanish there were many more and the amount depended on which Spanish language culture one was testing.
In a study of child development in Bali Indonesia Islene Pinder and Janet Kestenberg Amighi (1991) found evidence of parental shaping of children’s movement patterns to accord with cultural conventions. Upon reflection, we could hardly imagine otherwise. Although there are specific temperaments that seem strongly persistent throughout life reflected in movement, there is much transformation and evolution both due to internal developmental programs as well as influences of the external environment.
Kestenberg Amighi interviewed native speakers of 8 different langauges to determine to what extent metaphoric use of English body movement qualities exists cross language boundaries (2010). She found that the closer the culture, the closer the pattern of metaphoric use. In Yuche for example, there were only 3 parallels uses in the case of 47 KMP terms. In Spanish there were many more and the amount depended on which Spanish language culture one was testing.
Education
The movement qualities in the diagrams, Pre-efforts and Directions have been found to often have a defensive, cautious quality, for example, someone trying to contain their anger might strain and look downward, someone worried about an issue may avoid it with flexibility and sideways movements. It was discovered that these types of movement are used often in learning experiences as well. In early stages of attempting a new task, qualities such as channelling (focusing) or hesitating, can be helpful in the learning process. However, when the learner does not move from channeling to direct action, from hesitation to acceleration or deceleration, then mastery of a task does not evolve. Sometimes learners get stuck in avoidance modes delaying with hesitation and then rushing forward with suddenness to overcome the delay. By studying movements qualities of students, educators can assess learning styles and when those learning styles may inhibit further progress.
Kestenberg Amighi studied the use of pre-efforts in learning in two rural communities, in Iran and among the Navaho. She found that it was common for learners to go from observation of a task to mastery without an intervening practice or pre-effort stage. More work is needed to study learning styles cross culturally.
Rebecca Burrill (2001) used the KMP in her doctoral research on "The effects of teaching/learning environments on the creative process of learning evidenced through a movement analysis tool: The Kestenberg Movement Profile." She employed the KMP to analyze preschoolers movement while they were engaged in formal actiities, improvisational dance, and art-making. Results showed formal activities less effective in accessing the creative process while bodily movement encouraged healthy self-identity.
Kestenberg Amighi studied the use of pre-efforts in learning in two rural communities, in Iran and among the Navaho. She found that it was common for learners to go from observation of a task to mastery without an intervening practice or pre-effort stage. More work is needed to study learning styles cross culturally.
Rebecca Burrill (2001) used the KMP in her doctoral research on "The effects of teaching/learning environments on the creative process of learning evidenced through a movement analysis tool: The Kestenberg Movement Profile." She employed the KMP to analyze preschoolers movement while they were engaged in formal actiities, improvisational dance, and art-making. Results showed formal activities less effective in accessing the creative process while bodily movement encouraged healthy self-identity.
Research Applications
Inducing different feeling states through KMP rhythmic movements (Johnson, 2018)
Sossin, K. M. (2015) A Movement-Informed Mentalization Lens Applied to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder, Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 14:3, 294-310
Sossin, K. M. (2015). Early childhood risk factors for autism and psychosis. In J. McCarthy (Ed.), Psychosis in childhood
and adolescence (pp. 60-89). New York: Routledge. ISBN-13: 978-0415821063
Koch, S. C. (2014). Rhythm is it: Effects of Dynamic Body Feedback on Affect and Attitudes. Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 5, 537, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00537.
Koch, S. C., Fuchs, T., & Summa, M. (2014). Body memory and movement quality. The influence of light vs. strong movements on body memory. Memory Studies, 7(3), 272-284
KMP movements to describe interpersonal interactions (Koch, 2018)
KMP rhythms & thoughts and feelings (Koch, 2011)
KMP’s developmental model has been primarily based on hundreds of case studies, including longitudinal studies, of children, adolescents and adults (Kestenberg, 1965a & b, 1967; Kestenberg & Sossin, 1979).
Use of KMP patterns regarding stress transmission in parent-infant dyads (Sossin & Birklein, 2006; Birklein & Sossin 2006)
KMP & depression (Brauninger, 2005)
KMP & gender and leadership, (Koch, 2005)
KMP & mother-infant interaction in psychiatry (Koch & Brauninger, 2005).
Sossin, K. M. (2015) A Movement-Informed Mentalization Lens Applied to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder, Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 14:3, 294-310
Sossin, K. M. (2015). Early childhood risk factors for autism and psychosis. In J. McCarthy (Ed.), Psychosis in childhood
and adolescence (pp. 60-89). New York: Routledge. ISBN-13: 978-0415821063
Koch, S. C. (2014). Rhythm is it: Effects of Dynamic Body Feedback on Affect and Attitudes. Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 5, 537, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00537.
Koch, S. C., Fuchs, T., & Summa, M. (2014). Body memory and movement quality. The influence of light vs. strong movements on body memory. Memory Studies, 7(3), 272-284
KMP movements to describe interpersonal interactions (Koch, 2018)
KMP rhythms & thoughts and feelings (Koch, 2011)
KMP’s developmental model has been primarily based on hundreds of case studies, including longitudinal studies, of children, adolescents and adults (Kestenberg, 1965a & b, 1967; Kestenberg & Sossin, 1979).
Use of KMP patterns regarding stress transmission in parent-infant dyads (Sossin & Birklein, 2006; Birklein & Sossin 2006)
KMP & depression (Brauninger, 2005)
KMP & gender and leadership, (Koch, 2005)
KMP & mother-infant interaction in psychiatry (Koch & Brauninger, 2005).
Bender, S. (2010). Bewegungsanalyse von Interaktionen: Movement Analysis of Interaction. Berlin: Logos Verlag.
Birklein, S. B. & Sossin, K. M. (2006). Nonverbal indices of stress in parent-child dyads: Implications for individual and interpersonal affect regulation and intergenerational transmission. In S. C. Koch & I. Braeuninger (Eds.). Advances in dance-movement therapy. Berlin: Logos Verlag.
Birklein, S. B. , Sossin, K. M., & Loman, S. (2006). The effect of stress on the caregiver-child relationship: Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) research and interventions. ADTA 2006 Proceedings.
Birklein, S. B. (2005). Nonverbal indices of stress in parent-child interaction. Dissertation Abstracts International, 66 (01), 542 B.(UMI No AAT 3161860).
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